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bioperl-1.4
/ Bio::SeqIO::game::gameSubs

NAME

Bio::SeqIO::game::gameSubs -- a base class for game-XML parsing

SYNOPSIS

Not used directly

DESCRIPTION

A bag of tricks for game-XML parsing. The PerlSAX handler methods were stolen from Chris Mungall's XML base class, which he stole from Ken MacLeod's XML::Handler::Subs

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AUTHOR - Sheldon McKay

Email smckay@bcgsc.bc.ca

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

new

Title   : new
Usage   : not used directly
Returns : a gameHandler object
Args    : an XML filename

go

Title   : go
Usage   : not used directly
Function: starts PerlSAX XML parsing

start_document

Title   : start_document
Usage   : not used directly

end_document

Title   : end_document
Usage   : not used directly

start_element

Title   : start_element
Usage   : not used directly

end_element

Title   : end_element
Usage   : not used directly

characters

Title   : characters
Usage   : not used directly

strip_characters

Title   : strip_characters
Usage   : not used directly
Function: cleans up XML element contents

curr_element

Title   : curr_element
Usage   : not used directly
Function: returns the currently open element

flush

Title   : flush
Usage   : $self->flush($element) # or $element->flush
Function: prune a branch from the XML tree
Returns : true if successful
Args    : an element object (optional)

complain

Title   : complain
Usage   : $self->complain("This is terrible; I am not happy")
Function: throw a non-fatal warning, formats message for pretty-printing
Returns : nothing
Args    : a list of strings

dbxref

Title   : dbxref
Usage   : $self->db_xref($el, $tags) 
Function: an internal method to flatten dbxref elements
Returns : the db_xref (eg wormbase:C02D5.1)
Args    : an element object (reqd) and a hash ref of tag/values (optional)

comment

Title   : comment
Usage   : $self->comment($comment_element)
Function: a method to flatten comment elements
Returns : a string
Args    : an comment element (reqd) and a hash ref of tag/values (optional)
Note    : The hope here is that we can unflatten structured comments
          in game-derived annotations happen to make a return trip

property

Title   : property
Usage   : $self->property($property_element)
Function: an internal method to flatten property elements
Returns : a hash reference
Args    : an property/output element (reqd) and a hash ref of tag/values (optional)
Note: This method is aliased to 'output' to handle structurally identical output elements

evidence

Title   : evidence
Usage   : $self->evidence($evidence_element)
Function: a method to flatten evidence elements
Returns : a string
Args    : an evidence element

date

Title   : date
Usage   : $self->date($date_element)
Function: a method to flatten date elements
Returns : true if successful
Args    : a date element